“I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn't that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in the past. I wanted to have back just one sunny afternoon together.” — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“Children. For all of the times that you miss out on things you'd like to do because of them, there are an equal number… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn't that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in the past.… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“I'd heard about the traffic accidnet on the radio after I'd dropped Abbot off at school. I heard about the accident, that there were mutiple fatalities, an oil tanker ablaze, and the backed-up traffic on the interstate, and I had one simple though : I would take an alternate route. That was it, I would take an alternate route. Worse,… — Bridget Asher Copy Share
“If fact, she mothers with such patience and grace that she's elegant, timelessly elegant. Ironically enough, one might even say that she has become… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“And there are certain moments in your life when something becomes clear, and other things in the past - things that your mind, unbeknownst… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“If you let fear make decisions for you, fear will make good decisions - but only for its own sake, not yours. p. 161” — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise.” — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“I'm the kind of Flying Wallenda who prays for a good net. That's all. Just a good net.” — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“We were new then, our lives stretched out before us. Our families had let us go. Abbott had yet to find us. For this… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“I love the way the French shove chocolate into everything. It's, like, the best nervous tic ever.” — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“...almost like they had sucked up all the air in the room, and I was left oxygen-deprived. But with Henry, I had air again,… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“In America when someone asks me my nationality, I can't just say American. I have to go back generations, elaborate on there in Europe… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
